True Identity of Antichrist is Revealed

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Romanism is now regarded by Protestants with far greater favor than in former years. The time was when Protestants placed a high value upon the liberty of conscience which had been so dearly purchased. They taught their children to abhor popery and held that to seek harmony with Rome would be disloyalty to God. Many urge that it is unjust to judge the church of today by the abominations and absurdities that marked her reign during the centuries of ignorance and darkness. Have these persons forgotten the claim of infallibility put forth for nine hundred years by this haughty power? So far from being relinquished, this claim was affirmed in the nineteenth and twentieth century with greater positiveness than ever before. As Rome asserts that the "church never erred; nor will it, according to the Scriptures, ever err" how can she renounce the principles which governed her course in past ages?
Let the restraints now imposed by secular governments be removed and Rome be reinstated in her former power, and there would speedily be a revival of her tyranny and persecution. "Every cardinal, archbishop, and bishop in the Catholic Church takes an oath of allegiance to the pope, in which occur the following words: 'Heretics, schismaties, and rebels to our said lord (the pope), or his aforesaid successors, I will to my utmost persecute and oppose.' " - Josiah Strong, Our Country, ch. 5, pars. 2-4.

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